First VPS, located in Germany;

clicky

 

Second VPS (VPS 2), located in The Netherlands;

clicky

 

First VPS has 2 gigs more RAM (which is always good), but 10 gigs less space and it costs €8 more per month. BUT, if I go for a 1 year package I need to pay for 6 months only ;p

Second VPS seems good too, help me out.

 

Note, I need ~800-900 MBs of RAM if I want atleast one IW4M server and a website/forum. Oh, the first VPS also offers a free .de domain.

 

Note, I already went through this with some people, I'd just like more opinions

server4you seems to use openVZ (virtualization software) on their vps servers, while yourhosting uses KVM.

From my experience IW4M gameservers run pretty bad on openVZ (lag issues). Haven't had any vps which ran KVM though, but it should run better from what i've read about KVM.

Anyway, it highly depends on wether the provider is overselling...

 

Oh btw: I had pretty good results running an IW4M gameserver along with a website on:

jiffy

(cloud level 1, they are using XEN as virtualization software)

I'm guessing 'arbeitsspeicher' means RAM ? And it's ~15€ per month ? Where in Germany is it located and how's the speed ? Thanks for your reply banz. I appreciate it. Oh and also, what kind of OS do they provide ?

Yes Arbeitsspeicher = RAM

The server is located in Munich and as OS all kinds of Linux as far as I see it

And it's ~15€ per month ? [

Yep, 14.88€ when running 24/7.

 

I appreciate it. Oh and also, what kind of OS do they provide ?

CentOS 5.8, CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze 6.0, Fedora 17, openSUSE 12.1, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

You can choose between 32/64 bit.

 

EDIT: Argh, just read this: "Bitte beachten Sie, dass wir aktuell nur Bestellungen aus Deutschland und Österreich annehmen können."

 

->its only available for customers from Germany and Austria, so not an option for you i guess :<

 

As you probably already noticed, i would prefer the yourhosting one, if i would have to choose between the two.

Okay, these three offers seem very promising. But, what would you go for ?

s4y > I need to tie myself down for one year (seems a bad idea), free domain and 3GB of RAM, though it's ~19-20€

yourhosting > seems okay, but I'm not sure, the price is 20€ after some time

jiffy > seems promising, price is good too...

 

Do you guys have any experience with these providers ? Please do share them with me. Thanks.

 

Oh, well... I'm from Slovenia which is near Austria, does that count ;p or I could give the money per month to someone (you, magic, serpo, etc.), you know, bypass the system ;p

Here are some cheap 'real' dedicated servers:

 

german:

ovh

 

french:

ovh2

 

Found by backtracking some of the ip's in the server list:

( can't say if they're using the cheapest ones provided on the specific side...)

 

 

console.online

IW4M servers:

games-addict.fr

 

 

firsthe

IW4M server ip's: 91.229.20.28:28961 , 91.229.20.28:28962 91.229.20.28:28963, 91.229.20.28:28964 )

( lft-team seems to use it, cheapest: 13.99 € even available with 64GB SSD )

 

If an Intel Atom 230/(D425 if you're lucky) for 14.99€ or Atom 330/(N2800) for 19.99€ has enough performance to run an IW4M server (NTA?), then i would go for a 'real' dedicated.

Oh, thanks :3

 

But what would be better though ? That server you posted or a VPS ? Seeing the server seems cheap, I might go for that, the only thing that bothers me is; will it run an IW4M server alongside a website...

Uhm, ask NTA if the Intel Atom processors used in the dedicated servers i listed are able to handle one IW4M dedicated server (the ATOM D2500 surely is). You could also ask on the clan sites if they are using the cheap ones for their gameserver/( website even?). In case they're, just test by playing some on those.

Also, what kind of website are you going to host? I guess it won't be really highly frequented?

I would always prefer real dedicated over vps servers for running game servers, at least if the specs aren't too different.

Yeah, might do that later, as i can't right now

Actually, no, I don't think it would really be visited that much, just a normal clan website.

 

edit; banz, where can you find how much bandwidth you have here: http://www.ovh.de/server/dedicated/value/

protip: don't advertise the forum here.

Yeah, might do that later, as i can't right now

Actually, no, I don't think it would really be visited that much, just a normal clan website.

 

edit; banz, where can you find how much bandwidth you have here: ovh.de/

 

5.000 GB/month (100 Mbit/s), >5.000GB it's throttled to 10 Mbit/s.

 

But note: the french dependant provides better processor for same price (2nd link).

Hm, that's decent, but the RAM/processor worry me.

 

Anyways, I got an offer from someone;

Processeur

ATOM D525 2 x 1.8 Ghz


MГ©moire Vive

4 Go DDR3


Disque Dur

2 x 500 Go HDD SATA2


RAID

Soft RAID 0 ou 1


Carte RГ©seau

10 / 100 / 1000 Mb/s

 

For €6/month; and I -as it looks like- would get full access; i.e remote desktop/SSH, and stuff. What about this thing ;p

If you really get full access, that would be a very good offer IMO. At least if the provider is trustable.

If you really get full access, that would be a very good offer IMO. At least if the provider is trustable.

Seems he is, only one thing though; he already has one of his IW4M server on the same box, but I think the box would still manage to run my stuff, right ?

 

lolol, the guy fucked with me, he already has 3 servers on the machine, denied...